The Slime – ‘Living on Borrowed Slime’ [EP] [Album Review]

Oozing straight out of Toronto’s seedy sewers comes Living on Borrowed Slime, the new EP by metal punks The Slime. With as much of their sound owing to Municipal Waste as it does to Dropdead, the TO quartet is as sloppy and messy as their genre (and name) would indicate. Hell, even the promo was a Rubik’s cube (I still don’t know if I have the right order of the tracks, and that’s after clearing it up with the label), but it’s all good because at the end of it is the music. The Slime is very much in the vein of the above-mentioned bands, but with enough homage to be paid to acts like Comeback Kid and Cancer Bats to warrant those comparisons. But the group themselves are only interested in playing fast – like, very fast. And that breakneck pace doesn’t stop for anything, not sam...

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